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,GLOTHES DRIER. No. 892,374. Patented NOV. 6, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

VAN RENSELEAB TEN BROEOK, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-HALF TO THEODORE S. HEWKE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTH ES-DIIRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,374, dated November 6, 1888.

Application filed January 14, 1888. Serial No. 260,702. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that I, VAN RENSELEAR TEN BROEOK, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Horse, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a broken front elevation of my new and improved clotheshorse as it appears when dismantled and the arms placed in vertical position. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation taken on the line as xof Fig. 1, one of the arms being shown in horizontal position for use; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the lower shelf, D.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings, and then pointed out in the claims.

A represents the main frame of the clotheshorse, composed of the two side bars, a a, and end blocks, 12 b, which unite the bars a a, and through which screws pass for securing the horse in vertical position against a wall or other upright support. Between the adjacent edges of the bars a a is held by a cleat, c, the bar B. This is adapted to move freely up and down between the bars a a, and is provided at its. lower end with a foot-piece, d, of greater width than the bar B and adapted to enter corresponding notches, e e, in the bars an, of which notches there may be oneor more sets for holding the bar B and the parts connected thereto at different elevations.

To the upper end of the bar B is secured the plate or board 0, and tothis aresecured the two parallel and semicircular orcurved shelvesD D, supportedone above the other by the central cleat, f. The upper surface of the shelf D is notched or slotted radially, 'as shown at d d, to receive the arms E for holding .them in horizontal position for use, as shown in Fig.2. The said arms, entering the slots d, are held from tipping sidewise, and, being inserted between the shelves D D, are held rigidly in horizontal position. The said shelves are "braced from the central bar, B, by the brace F, (shown clearly in Fig. 2,) and below the shelf D is secured to the board 0 the crossbar G, which serves td hold the upper ends of the arms E in vertical position, as illustrated clearly in Fig. 2. When in this position, the said arms are supported upon the block H, secured upon the foot-piece d, and to the lower end of the central sliding bar, B. The arms are prevented from slipping off from the block H by a flange, g, of sheet metal, secured to the outer edge and ends of the block, as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 2.

By constructing the clothes-horse as described it is practicable to make all of the principal parts of wood, and it is very cheap and strong, and the arms E may be raised and lowered for elevating and removing the clothes, and when not in use the arms E may all be removed and placed in vertical position inthe blocks G and H, so that they are entirely out of the way and handy to be put in place when required for use.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The bar B, held between the notched bars a a of the main frame and provided with the foot-piece cland block H, in combination with the horizontal shelves D D, cleat G, and arms E, the cleat G and block H being adapted to receive and hold the arms E in vertical position, substantially as described.

block H, horizontal shelves D D, board C, re-

movable arms E, and cleat G, substantially as described.

VAN RENSELEAR TEN BROEGK.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY F. SMITH, E. WM. EDWARDS. 

